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The weather gods were smiling down on some of the Australian Sailing Team (AST) at the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 European Championships in Weymouth, where light breezes and flat seas made the difference for some, including to Nathan and…
Vertigo, the Summit 35 owned and skippered by Tim Olding, has won the IRC class of the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) slow-going 52 nautical mile 2019 Apollo Bay Race, which started on Saturday at 8.15 am with a…
The second round of structural testing of the one design AC75 foil arms has successfully been conducted at Persico Marine in Italy this week. Comprehensive tests were undertaken over the course of three days, with more than 100 different load…
The Brazilians in the 49erFX have shown remarkable consistency throughout the week, although even Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze put a slight blot on their pristine copybook with a 12th in the middle of three races on Friday. Their other…
Rolex Capri Sailing Week is providing a complete test for its competitors, and if yesterday was a lottery thanks to the intermittent breeze, today there was a steady 9-12 knot south-easterly with Vesper taking control. In this the race committee…
Norway and Brazil secured their places at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as the penultimate day of the Finn Europeans in Athens was abandoned late on Friday, with no more races sailed due to very light wind all day. Olympic…
Another testing day on Weymouth’s Portland Harbour when 14 plus knot shifty winds were dished up on Day 5 of the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 European Championships at Weymouth, a day that the Australian Sailing Squad’s Will and Sam…
After hurtling along at warp speed for 24 hours, propelled by a steady NW’ly wind, the leading boats in the Bermudes 1000 Race Douarnenez – Brest have, as expected, seen their progress falter as of early this afternoon. The reasoning…
For day two of inshore racing for the maxi boats at Rolex Capri Sailing Week it was extremely hard to decide one’s wardrobe; both sails and clothes. The day started with an unfamiliar chilly 20 knot offshore northeasterly that kicked…
Nacra 17: Brits got 'Downwind Wheels'! John Gimson and Anna Burnet foiled to the front of the Nacra 17 fleet after a solid start to the gold fleet finals with scores of 1,6,2. “We’ve finally found some downwind wheels,” said…
Diverse conditions on Day 4 of the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 European Championships played havoc with the Australian Sailing Team and others in Weymouth, changing up scores across the board that only the chosen few escaped to stay on…
Where does plastic waste originate? How does it arrive in the Ocean? Where should we concentrate our efforts to stop the flow of this waste? What impacts do plastics have on marine biodiversity? Recent estimates find that 80% of plastic…
The Finn Europeans in Athens got back on track on Thursday with three more races completed. After losing the overall lead following the opening race, Giles Scott ended the day with a 15-point lead over Hungarian world champion Zsombor Berecz….
Fresh, brackish or saltwater, there's always something that finds the bottom of a hull an irresistible place to live. Even with bottom paint, growth will develop that's not only unsightly, but robs the boat of its speed and fuel economy….
The US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has opened its Virtual Archaeology Museum which displays video, detailed 3D models and mosaic maps of shipwrecks from the 19th and 20th centuries. The historic shipwrecks were discovered…
Trinity Point, NSW, Australia, 17 May 2019 — April 18th was a significant milestone for Johnson Property Group and Managing Director, Keith Johnson. Mr. Johnson first began planning Trinity Point in 1999. His vision – a luxury resort /residential lakeside development. The…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. America's Cup ace Glenn Ashby has labelled the next boats “daunting” as their troublesome foil arms go through a crucial second testing phase in Italy. Multi-hull master Ashby, who helped United States syndicate Oracle win the…
Chelsea Football Club, London, Great Britain will host World Sailing delegates from 17-19 May for the 2019 edition of World Sailing’s Mid-Year Meeting. World Sailing’s Events Committee and Equipment Committee will meet on Friday 17 and Saturday 18 May before…
Nacra 17: Who can stop the Italian Job? The Danes and Argentineans made good moves up the scoreboard on the final day of Nacra 17 qualifying today. Lin Cenholt and CP Lubeck scored 4,1,3 to hold fourth overall, on equal…
Those competing in the Bermudes 1000 Race Douarnenez – Brest are not all being treated the same this Wednesday. The first boats are still being shown the way by Sébastien Simon (Arkéa – Paprec), who is creaming along at an…
Three days since the Regata dei Tre Golfi finished, Rolex Capri Sailing Week resumed on the Gulf of Naples today with two inshore races for the Maxi fleet. Sadly instead of Capri’s usual ‘beginning of summer’ conditions, the sky was…
After another long day on the water, two more races were completed at the Finn Europeans in Athens. Ioannis Mitakis, from Greece dominated the first race to take the home win, while Jonathan Lobert, from France, took the second, also…
NSW Roads and Maritime Services is responsible for auditing moorings across NSW, aimed at improving mooring management and administration. They manage around 27,300 private and commercial moorings throughout the State. Mooring apparatus failures can result in vessel becoming adrift and…
World Sailing, the world governing body of the sport, has partnered with the International Federation for Athletes with Intellectual Impairments (INAS) to jointly promote and grow sailing for people with intellectual impairments globally. World Sailing and INAS have signed a…
The Maritime Executive The National Hurricane Center’s Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch (TAFB) now issues detailed five-day marine weather forecasts for the offshore waters of Mexico, Central America, Colombia and Ecuador. These new Offshore Zone forecasts represent a dramatic increase…
Unless there is a flat calm, it is very likely that the outright record will fall in this August's edition of the Royal Ocean Racing Club's premium event, the Rolex Fastnet Race. For leading the charge in the world's biggest…
Since Francis Joyon’s win in the last Route du Rhum, the IDEC SPORT maxi-trimaran has been in the yard for her winter refit and repairs following what was a very tough Route du Rhum. Since that race, Francis has announced…
They got off to a shaky start in the first two races at the 49erFX Europeans in Weymouth two days ago, but the Australian Sailing Squad’s Natasha Bryant and Annie Wilmot have been upwardly mobile since, moving up to 12th…
Ever since its launch a couple of years ago I’ve been following the progress of Zulu Waterways. For those who haven’t heard of Zulu, it’s an app and website cruising guide that shows the location of everything from anchorages and…
Better out than in! During 2018 more than 14.2 million litres of sewage waste was recovered from 14,890 commercial vessels visiting the public pump-out facilities on Sydney Harbour. NSW Maritime Environmental Services team maintains the three publicly funded marine sewage…
Thirty yachts with over 100 crewmembers will depart the Southport Seaway at 08:00 on Friday the 17th May bound for New Caledonia and Vanuatu as part of the Down Under Go East Rally. The vessels and their crews have travelled…
Ben Ainslie and Britain’s America’s Cup sailors are to rejoin the GC32 Racing Tour in 2019, racing as INEOS Rebels UK, at the GC32 Villasimius Cup in southern Sardinia next week. Sir Ben Ainslie, well known for his four Olympic…
The fifteenth edition of the revived Quarter Ton Cup is less than a month away with more than 20 boats expected on the start line come 10—12 June for what is building up to be an intense and intriguing battle….
At 1245hrs UTC on Tuesday 14th May, Sébastien Simon was the first to round the Azores waypoint, the second major course mark in the Bermudes 1000 Race. The skipper of ARKEA PAPREC is now on the final leg of the…
49er: A bag of bullets for Burling and Tuke They’re not long back in the boat after their two-and-a-half year holiday in the America’s Cup and the Volvo Ocean Race, but already Peter Burling and Blair Tuke are back at…
Giles Scott, from Britain, leads after the first day of racing at the 2019 Finn Open Europeans in Athens following three races on Tuesday. Scott won two races and placed third in the other to hold a four-point lead over…
Sky gazers may be in for a treat this week, with increased solar activity bringing the potential for dramatic light displays to occur in skies over southern parts of the country. The heightened chance of aurora activity is expected to…
A record 22 maxi yachts will take to the water tomorrow for the first day of racing at Rolex Capri Sailing Week. This is the second event in the International Maxi Association’s new Mediterranean Maxi Inshore Challenge and follows the…
When Victorian John Chipp and his Beneteau Oceanis 411 crew arrive for their maiden SeaLink Magnetic Island Race Week at the end of August, they will be right at home with the other fun-loving entries that have come to define…
The Australian Sailing Squad’s Will and Sam Phillips have kept the momentum of yesterday’s top results going at the 49er European Championship in Weymouth, UK, today moving up to third place on the leaderboard after three further races were completed….
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